Recently, I have traveled to India in Kuwait Airways. The experience was very bad and if not for direct flight, I would try to avoid travelling in it.

On my onward journey to India, I have made the online check-in and as directed in the website, went to the airport around 2 hours ahead of the flight. I was pretty happy to see a check-in counter for the passengers who did the online check-in. However, the officer at the counter asked me to stand in the normal queue. I insisted that online check-in is done and it is only the baggage and boarding pass he need to do. He just said go to other queue and I saw may other passengers were asked to go to the normal queue.

It makes no sense to have the online check-in done for Kuwait Airways as the staff are not cooperative. I believe they require bit of a training on how to treat the passengers who did the online check-in.

May be they act differently as part of their strike, though I traveled after the strike has been called off.

India Medical Tourism Destination Kuwait 2011 on Nov 2-3 Traveling abroad for serious medical treatments is an arduous task that demands well-thought out planning. For those who can afford it, the cost of a procedure such as heart or liver transplant and hip replacement is not the top priority as much as a guaranteed successful outcome.

In the wealthy Gulf countries, especially, reputable doctors are sought out for these super-specialties as quality health care infrastructure is not readily available to date. Thousands of Arab patients flock to medical destinations such as the US, UK, and Germany as they are known for best-quality professionals and top-notch medical technologies.

Winter this year will be marked with dusty and fluctuating weather, Kuwaiti astronomer Dr Saleh Al-Ojairi told Al-Qabas daily, adding “the cold would be severe, especially at nights.”

Referring to the dust wave that hit the country on Sunday, Al-Ojairi said it will continue for the next two days and “temperatures will drop remarkably, with maximum temperatures around 34 degrees Celsius and minimum around 17 degrees Celsius.”

According to Al-Ojairi, the weather will be warm during Eid Al-Adha holidays. He predicted that rains would start from Nov 9, and advised people to start wearing woolens from Nov 26 onwards.

Arab times